Re: [tlug] Slooooooow down: logs, smartctl, DNS?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Mario De Tore writes:

 > Well, a quick look didn't show anything out of the ordinary.  The vast
 > majority of the traffic was SSH (as to be expected based on the setup
 > you described).  About nine minutes in there was a handful of
 > audioscrobbler-related DNS lookups. I didn't notice any obvious
 > network health issues (excessive TCP fragementation, broadcast storms,
 > etc).

How often are you seeing sync packets for those SSH connections?  SSH
is relatively expensive to set up and tear down, so if you're seeing a
lot of SSH connections, that could explain a feeling of network
conjection.